Presentations

Blackburne, G., Cooper, G., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Propofol disrupts asynchronous functional connectivity architectures in the human brain that are associated with the processing of complex stimuli. Paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Cooper, G., Blackburne, G., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Cortical feedback over long delays into auditory cortices supports real-world language processing. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Glotfelty, A., Aliko, S., Wang, B., Small, S. L., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Emotional processing of taboo words in naturalistic stimuli. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Harle, R., Glennon, M., Blackburne, G., Cooper, G., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). The neurobiology of language mediates alterations in conscious experience induced by psychedelic drugs. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kewenig, V., Vigliocco, G., Skipper, J. I. (2022). When abstract becomes concrete: the neurobiology of conceptual processing in the real world. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Kirk, P. A., Holmes, A. J., Skipper, J. I., & Robinson, O. J. (2022). Can Naturalistic fMRI Widen Our Understanding of Anxiety? Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, Scotland.

Lametti, D. R., Vaillancourt, G., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Visuomotor adaptation of co-speech hand movements is partially tied to speech production. Paper presented at The Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS), Halifax, Canada.

Wang, B., Aliko, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). Dynamic, multi-core-periphery architectures support the neurobiology of language in the real-world. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Wang, B., Aliko, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). ‘Language regions’ are artifacts of averaging. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Yeh, Y. J., Muraz, M., Beltran, N., & Skipper, J. I. (2022). The neurobiology of processing multiple emotional cues during language comprehension. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2022), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Glotfelty, A., Skipper, J. I., Aliko, S., & Small, S. L. (2021). Unique features of brain processing of expletives in naturalistic context. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2021), Virtual/International.

Wang, B., Aliko, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2021). Co-speech gestures impact the whole-brain distribution of brain regions involved in the semantic representation of words. Paper presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Aliko, S., Gheorghiu, F., & Skipper, J. I. (2019). The network architecture for natural language in the brain is not fixed. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2019), Helsinki, Finland.

Lamett, D. R., Bobbit, S., & Skipper, J. I. (2019). Distinct Speech Production and Speech Perception Regions in the Human Cerebellum: A Neuroimaging Meta-Analyses. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2019), Helsinki, Finland.

Johnston, A., Scholes, C., & Skipper, J. I. (2019). The relationship between facial speech cues and vocal tract configuration. Paper presented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA.

Pinto-Orellana, M. A., Ting, C-M., Skipper, J. I., Small, S. L., Ombao, H. (2018). Switching Regimes: Time Series Models with Application to Changes Brain Connectivity in an fMRI-Movie Experiment. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Scholes, C., Brown, B., Skipper, J. I., & Johnston, A. (2018). Visual Aid for Hearing Aids Results. Paper presented at ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe), Nottingham, UK.

Jo, Y. J., Brown, S., Lametti, D., Lo, S., Molimpakis, E., & Skipper, J. I. (2016). Reorganization of the neurobiology of speech perception after sentence overlearning. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2016), London, UK.

Skipper, J. I., Devlin, J., & Lametti, D. (2016). Distributed networks of speech production regions play a context determined role in speech perception. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2016), London, UK.

Skipper, J. I., Arenson, A., Cosgrove, C., & Hannon, J. (2014). Putting the text in neural context: Short term experiential reorganization of language and the brain. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2014), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Walsh, R. R., Rao, S. & Skipper, J. I. (2014). Proof of principle for a novel method of detecting brain network patterns during action-observation. Paper presented at the MDS 18th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden.

Gaudet, E., Buis, B., & Skipper, J. I. (2013). A situation at hand: Sign language learning dynamically re-organizes spoken language comprehension and the brain. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Seligson, E., Calabrese, M., Azdair, J. & Skipper, J. I. (2013). Languages’ transmogrifier: The role of motor cortex in processing observed iconic co-speech gestures. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Briggs, S. R., & Skipper, J. I. (2012). Re-visioning language and the brain: Auditory language comprehension is dynamically supported by visual cortex. Paper presented at the The Fourth Annual Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Sebastian, Spain.

Calabrese, M., Kane, S., Zevin, J. D., & Skipper, J. I. (2012). Spatially separable networks for observed mouth and gesture movements during language comprehension. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

O’Brien, A., Safran, J., & Skipper, J. I. (2012). Emotions speak louder, then words: Non-verbal emotional cues predict forthcoming words. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, USA.

Yang, J., Skipper, J. I., & Zevin, J. D. (2012). Natural language comprehension in Japanese-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China.

Jampol, L. E., Skipper, J. I., & Gilovich, T. (2011). Embodied language and decision making. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (2010). When your brain stops listening: Predicted discourse content causes the response in auditory cortex to decay. Paper presented at the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain.

Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (2010). How the brain predicts forthcoming words during sentence listening. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Montreal, Canada.

Liu, R., Skipper, J. I., McCandliss, B. D., & Zevin, J. D. (2009). Neural activity underlying passive perception of native vs. non-native contrasts. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Liu, R., McCandliss, B. D., & Zevin, J. D. (2009). The brain uses co-speech gestures to set the context for speech understanding. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I. & Sebanz, N. (2009). Dynamic functional reorganization of the brain when observed individual actions become joint actions. Paper presented at the Joint Action Meeting (JAM3), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (2009). The neurobiology of communication in natural settings. Paper presented at the first Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC2009), Chicago, IL, USA.

Zevin, J. D., Yang, J., Skipper, J. I., & McCandliss, B. D. (2009). Responses to two types of behaviorally relevant variability in speech in a passive fMRI paradigm. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Jones, R. M., Zevin, J. D., Skipper, J. I., Casey, B. J. & Tottenham, N. (2008). The neural mosaics of face sensitivity across development: a multivariate approach. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Dobryakova, E., & Sebanz, N. (2008). Observing joint actions: the brain keeps tabs on each actor’s movements in segregated processing streams. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Dobryakova, E., & Sebanz, N. (2008). Observing multiple people acting: Separability of cortical processing streams associated with each person’s actions. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Melbourne, Australia.

Zevin, J. D., Ferri, J. M., Skipper, J. I., & McCandliss, B. D. (2008). Change detection to speech sounds in the auditory dorsal stream. Slide presentation presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington DC, USA.

Zevin, J. D. , Ferri, J. M., Skipper, J. I. & McCandliss, B. D. (2008). Supramarginal and angular gyri respond to acoustic changes that are also phonetic but not because of habituation to phoneme identity. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Chen, E. E., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2007). Revealing tuning functions with brain imaging data using a peak fit analysis. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, USA.

Hlustik, P., Opavsky, J., Mayer, M., Bezdekova, D., Skipper, J. I., Solodkin, A., Small, S. L. Kocher, M., & Kanovsky, P. (2007). Emotional speech modulates network activation during hand movement by stroke patients. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Observed iconic and metaphoric speech-associated gestures are processed differently by ventral and dorsal premotor cortex. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA.

Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). The recent audiovisual past affects speech processing via modulation of neural activity in auditory and visual regions. Paper presented at the Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy.

Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). How is audiovisual speech processing affected by the recent audiovisual past? An fMRI study. Paper presented at the International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, USA.

Josse, G., Skipper, J. I., Chen, E. E., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). Meaningful mouth and hand movements play a role in language comprehension: Evidence from fMRI. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.

Liang, J., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2006). Increased brain activity in the observation-execution matching system for animated versus real faces during audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.

Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca’s area and the language mirror system. Paper presented at the Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy.

Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). Neurophysiological networks for extracting meaning from hand and face movements relevant to spoken language comprehension. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.

Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). The role of hand and face movements in the biology of spoken language comprehension: A network approach. Paper presented at Neurocognition of Gesture Processing, Leipzig, Germany.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., Josse, G., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. L. (2006). The cortical motor system simulates action descriptions conveyed by words and gestures. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Wier, H. Y., Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Raja, A., & Small, S. L. (2006). Virtual brain transplantation: An approach for accurate registration and parcellation of brain injured patients. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Florence, Italy.

Hummer, T., Skipper, J. I., Norris, C., & Small, S. L. (2005). Neural correlates of emotional processing during the audiovisual presentation of stories. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.

Josse, G., Suriyakham, L. W., Skipper, J. I., Levine, S. C., Goldin-Meadow, S., Huttenlocher, P., et al. (2005). Language-associated gesture modulates areas of the brain involved in action observation and language comprehension. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., van Wassenhove, V., Barber, C., Chen, E. E., & Small, S. L. (2005). The role of ventral premotor and primary motor cortex in audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.

Skipper, J. I., Wymbs, N. F., Lobo, N., Cherney, L. R., & Small, S. L. (2005). Common motor circuitry for audiovisual speech imitation and audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, Canada.

Fenn, K. M., Atkins, A. S., Skipper, J. I., Bond, V., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2004). Change deafness in a telephone conversation. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., van Wassenhove, V., Dick, F., & Small, S. L. (2004). Your brain says what it sees: Motor mechanisms of audiovisual speech perception. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Budapest, Hungry.

Skipper, J. I., van Wassenhove, V., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2004). Hearing lips and seeing voices in the brain: Motor mechanism of speech perception. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2003). Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2003). Sentence-level repetition priming as measured by brain activity is modulated by syntactic complexity and task demands. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York, NY, USA.

Solodkin, A., Hlustik, P., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2003). Motor imagery: A novel perspective on the network organization of the motor system in the human brain. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, New York, NY, USA.

Wong, P. C. M., Nusbaum, H. C., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2003). Cortical activation associated with lexical tone acquisition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, USA

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2002). Speech perception and the inferior frontal neural system for motor imitation. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H., & Small, S. L. (2001). Language processing without motor processing is bilaterally symmetric. Paper presented at the American Academy of Neurology 53rd annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2001). On the non-independence of language subcomponents. Paper presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Brighton, UK.